In the coalition array, more than a dozen trebuchets took the lead in launching the offensive.

These dozen trebuchets were built overnight after the allied forces withdrew their troops yesterday. The place where they were built was rough and crude. Therefore, Chu Shuijun did not expect these dozen trebuchets to achieve any great results - as long as they could be slightly

He was content to pose the slightest threat to the city wall of Daliang and even the defending Wei soldiers on the wall.

Unexpectedly, the dozen or so trebuchets of the coalition forces had not achieved any results, but they encountered a strong counterattack by many trebuchets in Daliang City.

I saw Wei soldiers loading pieces of fist-sized gravel into the throwing basket, and using the huge force of the trebuchet to eject them. As a result, the heads of the coalition forces outside the city seemed to be raining down, and many coalition soldiers were smashed to the ground.

Blood flow.

There were even some extremely unlucky guys among them who were hit on the head by these fist-sized rocks and died on the spot.

Seeing this, on the east tower of Daliang City, the imperial guard general Zhou Ji burst into laughter.

To be honest, Zhou Ji didn't really care about the attack by the grain soldiers outside the city.

The reason is very simple, because the Chu State's grain soldiers only have the most basic weapons such as swords, and the army is rarely equipped with long-range weapons such as bows and crossbows. Therefore, as long as this group of people cannot attack the city wall, they will not be able to pose any threat to the beams.

On the other hand, the Wei soldiers on the city wall could use their crossbows to shoot at the enemy soldiers outside the city.

They didn't even need to take aim at all, after all, there were too many Chu State Liang soldiers outside the city.

It has to be said that this was a one-sided siege battle. Since the Chu State's grain recruitment troops lacked effective means to restrain the Wei soldiers in Daliang City, it took half an hour after the war began.

The grain recruiters still failed to make any progress - the long siege ladder that these grain recruiters barely erected was either pushed away by the Wei soldiers on the city wall, or was doused with kerosene and burned.

But even in such a bad battle situation, Lord Chu Shui remained unmoved.

But think about it, the food and soldiers he sent out were purely used to consume the Wei army. Whether it was arrows in the city, or kerosene, rolling stones and other defensive methods, as long as these are used up, the next siege battle will be impossible.

, it will obviously be much easier.

After the first wave of offensive lasted for nearly half an hour, the morale of the grain-recruiting soldiers sent to attack the city gradually dropped to the bottom, and deserters even appeared one after another.

Seeing this, Chu Shuijun ordered his left and right: "Send an order to Wei Shao and order the guards to attack."

The left and right men immediately went to the central army, where the guards are today, and conveyed their general orders to Wei Shao, the chief general of the guards.

After receiving the general's order, Wei Shao sighed secretly and ordered: "Send the order and order "Chen Fei" to lead the front army... to attack the city!"

The front army of the Guards consists of a phalanx of 5,000 men, and within this phalanx, there are some subdivisions: 3,000 infantry in the front and 2,000 crossbowmen in the rear, all from Puyang.

The soldiers of the army were led by a brave general named Chen Fei.

After receiving Wei Shao's order, Chen Fei, the general who commanded the five thousand guardsmen, raised his head and glanced at Daliang City in the distance, and sighed secretly in his heart.

"The country is weak..."

Just like Wei Shao, Wei Yun, Wei Zhen and others, Chen Fei actually does not want to attack the Wei State. To be precise, few of the soldiers and generals of the Wei State are willing to fight against the Wei State.

The relationship was once so close that there were no troops stationed at the border, and people from both countries could travel to the other country at will.

I didn't expect that today, we would be at war with each other.

However, it was difficult to disobey the general's order, and Chen Fei had no choice but to order the former army to attack the city.

"Tap tap tap——"

It has to be said that although the Puyang Army does not rank high among the armies in the entire Central Plains, if you observe carefully, this army is actually not weak. At least, they are well-dressed and move in an orderly manner.

The food and soldiers recruited by Daliang City Wall need to be much better.

At this time, on the east city tower of Daliang, Wei general Zhou Ji frowned and looked at the defending troops who had already set up an offensive posture outside the city, feeling shocked and angry.

Although Daliang had not yet heard the news that Weiguo had defected to the coalition forces of other countries, seeing Weiguo's army appear outside the city and getting ready to attack the city, Zhou Ji was more or less able to

Guess Weiguo's current position.

"General."

A Wei soldier next to him said hesitantly: "That seems to be the army of Weiguo..."

"I can see it!" Zhou Ji glared at the soldier, and then said fiercely: "No matter which country's army they are, as long as they attack my beam, they will be regarded as enemy troops! ... No need to show mercy!"

"Yes!" the Wei soldiers on the wall responded.

In the blink of an eye, five thousand guards stepped into the area about a stone's throw away from the city. Seeing this, Zhou Ji immediately ordered: "All crossbowmen prepare...the target, the defending army in front...fire arrows!"

"

With an order, the crossbowmen on Daliang City launched a volley of fire.

At the same time, guard general Chen Fei also shouted: "Arrow attack! Raise your shield!"

After a while, arrows rained down, but unexpectedly, the losses of the defending infantry outside the city were not very serious. The vast majority of the infantry withstood the first attack of the Wei army with the shields in their hands.

Baptize the crossbow.

You must know that in yesterday's siege, even the elite soldiers under Xiang Mo, Xiang Juan, Wu Qi and others suffered heavy casualties from the Wei army's crossbow attack.

"Damn it!"

Zhou Ji viciously hammered the wall with his hand, making his anger well up.

The reason is very simple, because the weapons and equipment of the Puyang Army were all purchased from the State of Wei. Although the relationship between Wei and Wei had broken down a few years ago due to the incident of "the death of Wei Gong Ziyu", the king of Wei Zhao Run deliberately raised the

In order to sell weapons and equipment to Weiguo, Weiguo wanted to terminate the arms transaction with Weiguo, but before that, Weiguo still possessed a lot of Weiguo's armaments.

"We shouldn't sell our weapons to these hateful traitors!"

Cursing secretly in his heart, Zhou Ji immediately ordered a suspension of shooting and ordered: "Let the guards advance fifty feet!"

After all, the effective range of the Wei army's crossbow is about a hundred feet. At this extreme distance, it is no problem to shoot the soldiers with almost no escort, or the soldiers with only leather armor, but outside the city on the opposite side

The guardsmen were wearing iron armor forged by the Wei Kingdom. Although it was an old-style armor from several years ago, it still had very good defensive capabilities.

Under Zhou Ji's order, the Wei army's crossbowmen on the city wall began to load crossbow arrows, while the guard infantry outside the city accelerated at this moment, carrying the long siege ladder and rushed towards the city wall.

It was a mistake. Waiting for the guards outside the city to take advantage of the Wei army's crossbowmen on the city wall to load their crossbows, they quickly rushed in. After entering the effective shooting range of the Wei crossbows, the Wei soldiers on the city wall happened to load their crossbows.

Arrows, under the order of Wei General Zhou Ji, fired an overwhelming volley of crossbow arrows at the guards outside the city - especially the crossbowmen in their array.

For a moment, the crossbow arrows seemed like a torrential downpour. At a medium distance, even if the guards outside the city held up the iron shields forged by Wei State a few years ago, they could not completely block them. The most pitiful thing was the guards' arrows.

The crossbowmen, the Wei crossbows in their hands were originally several years behind the Daliang Imperial Guards.

, coupled with the fact that the Wei soldiers stood on the city wall and had the advantage of the geographical advantage, the Guard crossbowmen were hit by a wave of Wei army crossbow arrows before they entered the effective shooting distance. Countless soldiers were hit by arrows, or

Falling to the ground and wailing, or with eyes open, showing an expression of death.

"really……"

Guard general Chen Fei sighed secretly.

Over the years, the equipment of the Wei army has been changing rapidly, so he also expected that this situation would happen, but at this point, he could only bite the bullet and attack the city by force.

"Attack! Attack harder!"

Under the urging of guard general Chen Fei, three thousand guard soldiers held their shields high and carried the long siege ladder on their shoulders, and quickly rushed to the city.

At this time, the soldiers under the city, who were already on the verge of collapse, saw that their own side had dispatched regular troops, and their morale was slightly boosted, and they assisted the guardsmen in launching another attack.

In this battle, the coalition forces of various countries invested a total of 15,000 guardsmen and nearly 50,000 grain-raised soldiers, and fought fiercely with the Wei army in Daliang City for several hours, but in the end, the coalition forces were still unable to shake the old capital of Wei.

Even Chu Shuijun had to admit that the guards had tried their best in this battle, but the defense capabilities of Daliang City were too strong and were simply impregnable!

"That's it for today."

Seeing the sun setting in the west, Lord Chu Shui sadly gave the order to withdraw his troops.

He has realized that in order to conquer Daliang City, his coalition forces must build a large number of siege weapons - this is not a city that can be conquered simply by relying on large numbers of soldiers and generals.

On August 12, the second year of Wei Zhaowu, Chu Shuijun attacked Daliang again, but failed.
Chapter completed!